Can You Spray Paint Wooden Blinds

We did a few hanging up because we thought it would be so much easier.

Can you spray paint wooden blinds.

And then spray until the brown is gone. In the next picture the left side has 2 coats and the right side only one. Do this by lifting up the bottom rail and finding the wood or plastic pegs along the bottom. Use a flathead screwdriver to carefully remove the pegs and set them aside.

When deciding to spray paint what you have instead of buying new you need to calculate the cost of supplies and your time as to whether that outweighs the expense of new blinds. You may use a sponge or other implement to add texture to your blinds. You just need to hang the blinds in a way to be able to open and close the blinds. Laying the blinds down on the table make it easier because there s less tension on the strings.

If you do this know that the paint may not be smooth. I let it dried a bit before closing the blinds and spraypainting again. Use what you have on hand. One advantage of this approach.

It s a little time consuming to get all the slats back in the notches and facing the same way. You don t want paint on the strings or to spend hours trying to paint around them so the real trick in painting blinds is to take the slats off the strings. The spray paint can should say how long that will take but it s usually a couple hours. Yes you can paint wooden blinds.

We tried cream spray paint to see if that would go quicker but came back to this chalktype paint process because we liked it the best. Attach blinds to window brackets. I started the blinds and then melissa painted 9 yes 9 of them for me. Then we tried to do a few laying down.

The spray paint also made the strings stiff so that does affect the how easily the blinds raises and lowers. The shellac spray primer will bind to bare wood or wood finished with both oil and water based coatings. Spray each slat with the shellac spray primer until the slat is coated evenly. For the tidiest look you should take them apart so you can paint the slats without smearing paint on the cords.